Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Richard Watson] Gilder
Transcription
Martinez, March 27. 1899.
My dear Mr Gilder
Muir
I shall be very glad to call on Mrs [Foote?] the first time Im in the city & tell her the Berkshire Hills story with all its blessed Gilders & glaciers. This will be a job after my own heart. Sargent sent me word that you were writing a book on Brook farms glaciers. Send me the icy stanzas you have written after striking out the semi humor & making the semi serious whole it must be a blank shame for a poet to write disrespectfully of glaciers even bucolic or agricultural glaciers.
I thank you for your kind suggestions about "Recollections of a Naturalist". Possibly I may try something of the sort some of these days though my life on the whole has been level & uneventful & therefore hard
to make a book of that many would read. I am not anxious to tell what I have done but what Nature has done an infinitely more important story.
I look back to the Gilder days with delight they were perfectly charming. Remember me to Mrs Gilder & those dear baby girls
Ever Yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899 Mar 27
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Richard Watson] Gilder, 1899 Mar 27." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2368.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2368
Resource Identifier
muir10_0709-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0709
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
New York Public Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
